Report: Samsung’s Bixby Voice Struggling With English Language, US Launch Still Weeks Away

You undoubtedly know that Bixby was a major part of the Galaxy S8 launch event. Samsung touted many possibilities, but as we head into June, there’s still no timeframe for when US users can expect to see the complete Bixby experience. According to a new report, though, we are still weeks away from a launch.

Reported by the Wall Street Journal, Samsung’s internal testing of Bixby Voice is showing many troubles with English grammar and syntax. To be competitive and go up against Apple’s Siri and Google’s Assistant, both of which seem very competent in English grammar and syntax, Samsung will obviously need to iron out any kinks before launch.

In a statement provided by Samsung, the company says, “Bixby Voice benefits from time to further enhance natural language understanding, and we are currently growing our user testing in the U.S. to prepare for launch.”

So, while testing continues and Samsung hashes out issues, Galaxy S8 and S8+ owners will need to remain patient. If a hard date is ever provided by Samsung for when US users can expect a launch, we’ll let you know.

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How is a dedicated button on the side a “potential game changer”? To me, the fewer the buttons the better.

illregal

HTC killed it with the squeeze.

Meffaliss

If Bixby ends up understanding my weird accents when I speak English, then great!

SMD79

Wonder if this is similar to Samsung Gear S3’s inability to work with the English language for voice to text. Crappy bug disabled English (US) language a couple months ago on all S2 and S3 watches. Ugh.

You’re absolutely right, and it sucks that I’m going to have to do that, but it’s annoying because it’ll still show the Bixby animation, right? This is why it was difficult for me to switch from a 6P to a Samsung phone – man I love vanilla android.

Daistaar

Not if you use Bixbye. It’s so quick that you’d have no idea Bixby was ever called. Very native feel.

illregal

Except for the lag you experience in all aspects of using a samsung phone.

Daistaar

Ohhhhhh snap! That’s really clever! How’d you come up with such a good burn?! You should be a comedian!

I can wait. Loving the S8 so far, and Bixby is decent enough to glance at when I’m not using google assistant. I for one will never ask for less options in whatever tech I”m using so I’m hoping Bixby becomes what Samsung thinks it can become.

I’d rather Samsung focus on other stuff and let us just remap the button to whatever we want and shut down Bixby. It’s utterly pointless right now, especially considering how far ahead Siri, Alexa, and Google Assistant are.

AJ

True Bixby is behind for sure, but what if it happened to end up being good? I mean why shut down innovation, if anything maybe a cool feature or 2 comes out of the development of Bixby and Google Assistant, Siri & Alexa adopt those things. I’d like remap option too, but long pressing the home button for Google Assistant is a short cut in itself.

Meh, Samsung Pay is great because of the acquisition of the company that had the magnetic strip simulation technology. I already don’t like the fact that I have yet another account in the Samsung services. Like Bixby Vision is supposed to be like MS Lens (or is that the google name, I don’t remember).

I just like having the least amount of bloatware/apps I’ll never use as possible on my phone.

Brian Himes

A good positive outlook. Wish more were like this. I differ a bit since those added options make their phones slightly lag.

Eli Shirk

Just let us remap the button without a third party solution already, no one asked for Bixby,

Meltdown07

Amen! I’m cool with providing users with more options, but man, please let us have options for using that button!

Yep, I don’t think a single user out there would be upset if they decided to just can Bixby all together.

Good_Ole_Pinocchio

Bro there’s nothing stopping you from Remapping the app right now.

Lucky Armpit

Didn’t the last update from Samsung kill the ability to remap the button? I have it disabled (do nothing when pressed) which is perfectly fine with me.

Good_Ole_Pinocchio

The new apps just Hijack the functionality. So the system launches Bixby first and the new apps Hijack and load whatever app you want.

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